TORTURING

• (noun) the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason

  "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

  synonyms : torture

• (adj.) extremely painful

  synonyms : agonising , agonizing , excruciating , harrowing , torturesome , torturous

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